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Blind Chinese Activist Appeals “Unlawful” Sentence – Reuters

From Reuters via the New York Times: A blind Chinese human rights activist whose jailing last month sparked an international outcry has filed an appeal, asserting authorities stifled his defense and apparently coerced witnesses into testifying against him. Chen Guangcheng attracted world attention last year after issuing a report that said officials in east China’s […]

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China: Lists – John Kennedy

From Global Voices Online: Blogger’s block, we all get it sometimes. Ruthless readers, our editors, don’t have time for excuses. So what’s a blogger to do? Lists! Here are few from the last few days of the Chinese blogsphere, ordered with a certain amount of thematic continuity:… -The internet is now becoming a game between […]

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The Making of Martyr Gao – Jonathan Ansfield

From Spot-On: The last time I chatted with Gao Zhisheng, he’d just finished watching Gandhi. It was one of those late April days in Beijing when you can taste the dust. I was with Martin Garbus, the veteran First Amendment trial lawyer, whose case work with dissidents includes names like Havel, Sahkarov and Mandela. He […]

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CDT Bookshelf: Edward Friedman recommends “China’s Peaceful Rise: Speeches of Zheng Bijian 1997-2005”

For the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Edward Friedman, a professor in the Political Science department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recommends China’s Peaceful Rise: Speeches of Zheng Bijian 1997-2005 Brookings Institution Press, 2005. Friedman writes: This is a collection of talks […]

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China Widens Crackdown Amid Calls For Lawyer’s Release – RFA

From Radio Free Asia: Authorities across China have stepped up detentions and surveillance of key rights activists amid growing calls for the release of Beijing-based lawyer Gao Zhisheng. “Gao Zhisheng was taken away by unidentified men in plain clothes who gave no identification nor any reason for his detention while he was on a trip […]

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China Heroes Mark Time Before Foreign Web Game Assault – Reuters

From Reuters via the New York Times: A patriotic Internet game featuring heroic Chinese and designed to wean the young off their addiction to violent foreign games is still not ready for release a year after development begun, state media said on Tuesday. Unlike the more popular games, where players have to slay dragons, fight […]

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FoxConn is not dumb, but downright vicious – Non-Violent Resistance

From the Non-Violent Resistance blog, more on the FoxConn lawsuit against two China Business News journalists: Words in the Chinese press circles are, that FoxConn, therefore Hon Hai, had deliberately picked the two journalists from China Business News to sue in a painstaking plot to harrass and intimidate media outlets and journalists. After all, China […]

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